Post Tagged with: "Heather Crawford"

Physics Student Publishes Nuclear Research Conducted at National Lab

Nuclear physics graduate student Andrea Richard

Ohio University physics doctoral student Andrea Richard published an article about understanding the structure of neutron-rich magnesium isotopes in the American Physical Society’s Physical Review C, a peer-reviewed journal covering leading research in nuclear physics. Her paper, “Strongly coupled rotational band in 33Mg,” describes her research on the ground-state rotational band […]

Read more ›
August 10, 2017 at 12:40 pmResearch

Graduate Expo Winners Investigate Magnetic Atoms, Things That Go Boom In Space

Graduate Expo Winners Investigate Magnetic Atoms, Things That Go Boom In Space

The Ohio University Student Research and Creative Activity Expo is an opportunity each year for Physics & Astronomy students to present scientific information in a format that is often used at international scientific conferences. A panel of faculty members in the sciences serve as judges determines the winning posters. This […]

Read more ›
April 22, 2017 at 4:12 pmNews

2015-16 Physics & Astronomy Faculty News

L to R: Sergio Ulloa, Rong Yang, Nancy Sandler

The following is Physics & Astronomy faculty news from 2015-16. Alexander (Shura) Neiman, who specializes in techniques to separate signals from a noisy background, was promoted to full Professor. Shura co-authored several articles recently on this topic in the prestigious journals Physical Review Letters and Physical Review E. His work […]

Read more ›
March 2, 2017 at 8:00 amNews

Doctoral Student Receives DOE Science Award for Research at National Lab

Andrea Richard at the 2015 Student Research & Creative Activities Expo

Andrea Richard, a doctoral student in Physics & Astronomy, received a Science Graduate Student Research award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science to conduct research this summer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. During her three-month stay in Berkeley, CA, Richard will conduct research on the beta decay […]

Read more ›
April 18, 2016 at 11:12 amNews Research

Crawford, Grad Students Participate in Experiment at National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory

Dr. Heather Crawford. Photo by Rob Hardin

Dr. Heather Crawford, Adjunct Professor of Physics & Astronomy, and several graduate students traveled to the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University to participate in an experiment studying the very neutron-rich Carbon isotopes (16,18,20C) by measuring the states populated in proton-knockout reactions from neutron-rich nitrogen. The experiment […]

Read more ›
April 25, 2015 at 3:04 pmResearch

Cosmos to Isotopes: Three New Faculty Explore the Universe

Dr. Hee-Jong Seo. Photo by Rob Hardin

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy The Department of Physics & Astronomy welcomes three new faculty members—an experimental nuclear physicist and two astrophysicists. By coincidence, two are from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California: Dr. Heather Crawford, an experimental nuclear physicist, and Dr. Hee-Jong Seo, an astrophysicist. Dr. Ryan Chornock, also […]

Read more ›
October 1, 2014 at 12:37 pmNews